#9. The Meth Den

We went to an apartment which was a local drug den. A female we knew called and said the male renter had been assaulted, and she had run.

We got there, and the door was bolted shut. I kicked the door over and over again, and it wouldn’t open.

What I found out later is the dope team had done a search warrant on the apartment a couple weeks earlier, and afterward, the tenants had reinforced the door jamb with a metal plate.

It took me kicking the door a total of 22 times before I broke the deadbolt in half, which flew across the room and hit the wall.

We made entry; guns drawn and started clearing the apartment.

This place was the kind of spooky I have only seen in places where a lot of Meth is done. It was dark, there were swastikas, 666, upside down pentagrams, etc painted on the wall, pictures of faces hung on the wall with the eyes X’d out, and baby dolls with their eyes scratched out into X’s.

As we cleared the first room we started seeing the blood. First on the bed, then a trail on the floor leading into the back room.

We followed the trail of blood down the hall to the bathroom door. In front of the door was the renter’s dog which was shaking uncontrollably and pissing all over the floor, scared out of its mind. As we got closer the dog got really aggressive, because it was scared.

I made my way around the dog and entered the bathroom where I found the renter hunched over in the shower, bleeding from his face, holding his cheeks with his hands.

He was frantically trying to talk, pleading with us not to hurt his dog. Blood was dripping from his mouth, and I couldn’t understand him.

Then I saw the extent of what had happened to him. — His jaw had been dislocated on both sides when he was beat by 2 men with a hammer, and it was just hanging there.

As he was trying to plead with us, he could only attempt to talk by flicking his blood-covered tongue in the pattern of the words, because his jaw didn’t work at all.

#10. “We are all a little weird”

Less creepy but more of a surprise.

Get a call for a burglary. I’m doing a walk through with the resident noting all missing and damaged property. He was an older guy.

We are in the bedroom looking in drawers.

I open one and see it full of women’s panties and bras. I ask him when his wife will be home to help identify missing items. He stutters a little bit and finally says, “Uhhh those are mine.”

I just closed the drawer and went on with my investigation.

We are all a little weird bro.

Far be it from me to judge you for wearing pretty underwear.

#11. “Just gone and forgotten”

A dead guy. But not just your average dead guy.

This guy died on his couch surrounded by no less than 1,500 Miller Lite cans. Plus, he had no friends or family.

None.

He was retired, and his electric bill was auto-deducted from his checking account. He died, on his couch, and no one realized it for 5 months.

When we found him, the top (front really, because he was on his back) was completely skeletonized. But the bottom (or back, against the couch) was still meaty and rotting.

The half-skeleton was kinda creepy. But its really creepy and sad that this guy left this world and it didn’t affect anyone.

Just gone and forgotten.

#12. Brothers…

Responded to a fight between two brothers and another unrelated black male. All these guys were in their late thirties, early forties. Get them separated. They were all drunk.

Turns out the bigger of the two brothers and the other male were fighting over who got to have sex with the other brother.

They had been raping him for a while.

All three were low functioning.

#13. “Lots of stuff you see tells a story you never asked for”

Abandoned houses are pretty depressing: family pictures and albums collecting dust and decaying, sad stuff written in marker as daily reminders to start again: “get off drugs,” “look for work,” “make things right.” And, seeing a sleeping-mat comprised of towels and old sweaters in a corner and pizza boxes from Little Caesar’s next to it.

Lots of stuff you see tell a a story you never asked for or expected to find.

Makes me feel lucky to have what I have.

#14. Troll-Lover

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I got called in on a domestic disturbance and when we got there this guy had literally hundreds of those little troll toys.

They were covered in semen.